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SEE RIVER TOOLKIT FOR FACILITATING CROSS-SECTORAL MANAGEMENT OF RIVER CORRIDORS

The SEE River Project successfully developed the SEE River Toolkit, a
generally applicable model and guidance how to reach common agreement on
river management for the harmonisation of both – development and
conservation interests. It is an innovative tool, based on local and
international experience that outlines a new direction and represents a
good basis for the future sustainable use of river corridors. The
toolkit promotes techniques for communication, dialogue and
facilitation. It was prepared concretely, but worked out on a general
level to assure that it could be used on other river corridors, too. It
was developed through communication and active involvement of local
stakeholders and supported by the international exchange of various
experience and good practices.

Sustainability has become a highly important
consideration for utilities as they strive for competitive
advantage through differentiation. The Protocol, comprehensive in
scope and endorsed by multiple stakeholders, is a
recommended tool for the assessment of a hydropower
project’s or plant’s sustainability performance. The value
created during this assessment and by the derived
sustainability profile justifies the investment necessary to
conduct such a protocol application. Download (pdf 1mb)

ICPDR: Sustainable Hydropower Development in the Danube Basin: Guiding Principles.

International Commission for the Protection of the Danube River (ICPDR)“Guiding Principles” are primarily addressed to public
bodies and competent authorities responsible for the planning and
authorization of hydropower but are also relevant for potential investors
in the hydropower sector as well as NGOs and the interested public. Download (pdf 1.2mb)

IIED: A review of social and environmental safeguards for large dam projects

This review seeks to clarify the evolving context for international
support for large hydropower in developing countries, and the links to
international carbon financing as a perceived route to climate change
mitigation, including carbon trading
systems. Download (pdf 1.2mb)

Public funding of hydropower through multilateral channels has grown, but
many OECD governments are reluctant to expand support through carbon
financing schemes, largely due to controversy over dams’ environmental
and social impacts. The
Protocol can help realise lawmakers’ aspirations to use OECD support only
for socially and environmentally acceptable hydropower and to foster
renewable energy resources that complement each other. Download (pdf 40kb)

IIED: The business case for bilateral support to improve sustainability of private sector hydropower

This paper explores the practical reality where
government regulators, public entities, commercial
lenders and private developers all play roles in reaching
decisions about responsible private investment and
managing risk. It also proposes aligning international
public financial support through bilateral and
multilateral channels, where public- and private-sector
roles in delivering sustainability are intertwined. Download (pdf 376kb)

IIED: Managing the environmental and social risks of hydropower: private and public roles

Private sector hydropower projects are driven primarily by returns on equity
investment balanced by perceptions of risk. This can lead to concerns that
such projects may overlook environmental and social (E&S) issues that are
fundamental to sustainability. But the two need not be mutually exclusive.
We present the business case for adopting the E&S risk management tools. Download (pdf 95kb)

IHA: Progress with the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol

This paper describes the development of the Hydropower Sustainability
Assessment Protocol and discusses the success achieved in its first
four years of implementation. Download (pdf 274kb)

IHA: Using the Protocol to avoid project delay

The Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol is the most
effective tool currently available to measure
non-technical risks associated with a hydropower project. Its use could
help developers deliver projects on time and to budget. A survey of 42
international hydropower projects which experienced pre-construction
delay
showed that a Protocol assessment would have identified the cause of
delay in 44% of the cases. Download (pdf 391kb)

The Nature Conservancy: The Power of Rivers

World Bank: The Protocol for use by World Bank clients: lessons learned and recommendations.

Guidance on how the Protocol can be used by World Bank clients is based on the suitability of the
tool in developing country contexts, the tool’s value proposition for clients, its cost and ease of use,
and its potential impact on project performance. Download (pdf 1.8mb)

WWF: Everything you need to know about the UN Watercourses Convention

In 1997, more than one hundred nations joined together to adopt the
United Nations Convention on the Law of the Non-Navigational Uses of
International Watercourses (UNWC)—a flexible and overarching global
legal framework that establishes basic standards and rules for
cooperation between watercourse states on the use, management, and
protection of international watercourses. As of June 2014, the
convention counted 35 contracting states and entered into force on
August 17, 2014. Download (pdf 1.4mb)

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​Demand-side
management means transferring electricity consumption from hours of
high load and price to a more affordably priced time, or temporarily
adjusting consumption for the purpose of power balance management. More
demand-side management is needed as the amount of inflexible production,
such as nuclear power and renewable energy, in the grid increases.
Inflexible production sets challenges on the current market model, where
only energy is traded. Increasing demand-side management is one method
of securing the survival of the current market model also in the future.
In Finland, loads from large-scale industry have, for a long time,
acted as reserves used for maintaining the power balance; however, these
loads are mainly focused on industry such as forestry and the metal and
chemical industries. Demand-side management is a natural opportunity to
increase supply on both regulating power and reserve markets.
A novel idea on the electricity market is also so-called aggregators,
i.e. companies that combine small-scale consumption and production to a
larger entity, which can participate in different markets. The
small-scale production of a consumer can be considered similar to
demand-side management, if it reacts to the market situation and
decreases the amount of electricity the party takes from the grid; these
include the back-up power generators of buildings and commercial
premises.
Participating in demand-side management can, at first, require
investments from companies, but in the long term, it can offer a
cost-efficient solution for both the company and the national economy.
The amount of demand-side management on the Finnish market in 2016: